Kingston's currently fastest client SSD, the Fury Renegade, appears in a new version with a heat sink. This means that the waste heat is potentially better dissipated. Nothing has changed in the official performance data.
The cooler is the only novelty
Without much fanfare, Kingston introduces the “Fury Renegade with Heatsink”, which is already available at the first retailers and should be available in a few days. The only difference from the previous version is the heat sink, which increases the dimensions to 80mm x 23.67mm x 10.5mm. This is just flat enough that this model can also be used as a storage expansion for the PlayStation 5. The weight increases to over 30 grams.
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Kingston Fury Renegade SSD with heatsink (image: Kingston)
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Kingston Fury Renegade SSD with heat sink (image: Kingston)
< p class="p text-width">The other key data correspond 1:1 to the variant without a cooler, so that from now on both are listed on the same product page by the manufacturer.
The cooler is intended to ensure that the performance does not or later collapse even under continuous load if it is throttled due to excessively high temperatures.
With cooler it is more expensive
But the cooler means a surcharge, which is currently around 30 euros each for the variants with 500 GB to 2 TB. At 737 euros, the 4 TB version with a cooler is currently around 120 euros more expensive than the version without a cooler. However, the prices are often higher at the market launch and can fall later.
High-end with Phison E18
Equipped with the fast Phison E18 platform, the Fury Renegade with PCIe 4.0 peaks at 7,300 MB/s reading and 7,000 MB/s writing. However, the power consumption is high at up to 10.2 watts (4 TB). The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX (test) or the Seagate FireCuda 530 (test) offer similar performance with the same controller.